by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Oct 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
I spend a lot of my time thinking about ‘femininity’. My work on the first history of women in corporate leadership requires that I discuss the assumed, and actual, wants and needs of corporate women. I examine the way women are expected to act, how they...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Mar 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you ever need a non-fiction bestseller, write a book on women in leadership. Every ambitious woman in middle and senior management will buy it, as will well-meaning men. The launch will be packed by women and men wanting to be seen to support the cause of...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Jul 4, 2022 | Awards, Data, Publishing
My co-authors (the fabulous Associate Professor Corinne Cortese, Dr Abdullah Al-Mamun and Dr Searat Ali) and I were delighted to be nominated for best paper at the 2022 Academy of Management conference in Seattle, Washington. The paper explores rhetorical decoupling...
by Dr. Claire E. F. Wright | Apr 8, 2022 | Data, Ideas
I remember sitting in a work in progress workshop with UOW’s CASS network last year, discussing the pilot of my (then proposed, now awarded) DECRA project, the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership. One of the participants, I believe it was Claire...
